Senior Aurora MySQL DBA - Performance & Reliability Lead

Equals Money; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to manage the health and performance of its Aurora MySQL clusters. You will work closely with engineering teams to ensure efficient performance and reliability, automate routine checks, and handle backup and recovery strategies. The ideal candidate will have strong MySQL administration skills, experience with performance tuning, and familiarity with AWS services. Join our diverse team committed to delivering exceptional services to customers and enjoy competitive benefits including a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days holiday + birthday off

Free onsite gym

Bupa Private Healthcare

Training budget of £250

Hybrid working arrangement

Mental Health Services

Qualifications

• Strong practical experience with MySQL/Aurora MySQL administration at production scale.
• Proven ability to profile and tune queries and indexes.
• Experience with AWS Aurora and RDS internals.

Responsibilities

• Monitor cluster health and alerts, act on incidents.
• Diagnose and optimise slow queries.
• Ensure backups and snapshots are configured and tested.
• Perform capacity planning and maintenance.
• Automate routine checks and reports.

Skills

MySQL administration

Performance tuning

Scripting (Bash, Python)

Monitoring and alerting

Tools

CloudWatch

Percona Toolkit

ProxySQL

Job description

A leading financial services firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to manage the health and performance of its Aurora MySQL clusters. You will work closely with engineering teams to ensure efficient performance and reliability, automate routine checks, and handle backup and recovery strategies. The ideal candidate will have strong MySQL administration skills, experience with performance tuning, and familiarity with AWS services. Join our diverse team committed to delivering exceptional services to customers and enjoy competitive benefits including a hybrid working model.